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Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe was a Somali human rights activist and physician. She was the founder and chairperson of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF), a non-profit organization.
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science · Somali activist, physician (1947–2020) · gynecologist · lawyer · physician · jurist · humanitarian · human rights defender · also Hawa Abdi, Dr. Hawa Abdi, Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe, Abdi
Born 17 May 1947 · Died 5 August 2020 · Q3595473
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Poco a poco, se están apoderando de mi tierra, así que ya no tengo espacio para recibir a la gente pobre.
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“Most of the NGOs that have come back are in central Mogadishu, because it is still too dangerous to come into our area. We are operating here with no support from other NGOs or international bodies; we are in desperate need of help if our work is to continue.”
Published “Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 1,452 times.
Published “Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 2,609 times.
Died 2020-08-05.
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Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,317 times.
“Poco a poco, se están apoderando de mi tierra, así que ya no tengo espacio para recibir a la gente pobre.”
“Puedo ser una mujer. Pero he estado trabajando para este país durante los últimos 20 años. ¿Qué has hecho tú?”
Abdi died on 5 August 2020, at her home in Mogadishu.
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2017).
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Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want (2014).
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Abdi received the Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award in Middelburg, the Netherlands
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Democracy Now: Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed
Published “Efficient solar water splitting by enhanced charge separation in a bismuth vanadate-silicon tandem photoelectrode” in Nature Communications — cited 1,286 times.
Published “Partial Least Squares (PLS) methods for neuroimaging: A tutorial and review” in NeuroImage — cited 1,346 times.
Awarded Woman of the Year presented by Glamour (2010).
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Published “Principal component analysis” in WIREs Computational Statistics — cited 9,824 times.
Published “Partial least squares regression and projection on latent structure regression (PLS Regression)” in WIREs Computational Statistics — cited 1,257 times.
Ahmed died in a 2005 car crash in Hargeisa, while on a visit to his father who had since separated from Abdi.
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Abdi opened the Rural Health Development Organization (RHDO) on family-owned land in the southern Lower Shebelle region
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Abdi married Aden and gave birth to her first child two years later
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In 1973, Abdi married Aden and gave birth to her first child two years later.
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Studied at Bogomolets National Medical University (1971).
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Received a scholarship from the Women's Committee of the Soviet Union
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Born 1947-05-17.
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